As awards season storms into November the pool of Best Picture candidates is finally starting to solidify. If the new ten picture system has done anything, it's established a small handful of films that are almost sure things to make to the dance. Full Article at HitFix

Jamie Cullum: Meeting Sophie Dahl had an impact on my new album, The Pursuit Nov 7 2009 Alison Kerr FOR mop-haired jazz-pop star Jamie Cullum, 2009 is shaping up to be his best year ever. Full Article at The Daily Record

Hi, Jamie! You play piano, guitar, bass and drums. Ever wish you were an octopus so you could play everything at once? You don't need more arms. You can use your feet for the drum and strap a cymbal on your elbow. Full Article at The Guardian Music

I hope none of my editors will take this personally, but there's nothing scarier than seeing a newspaper editor write his own story without some kindly soul hovering nearby, making sure the editor, left to his own devices, doesn't fire off a few zany... Full Article at Los Angeles Times

While movie theatres aren't quite desperate enough to offer flu vaccinations to ticket buyers, they'll do everything else they can to get seats filled during the coming holiday season. Full Article at Toronto Star

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Hal Holbrook continues his late-career renaissance, begun so vividly with his Oscar-nominated turn in "Into the Wild," with this elegiac drama about an octogenarian who still has a lot of fight left in him. Full Article at ABC News

"Get me another beer... This one's running on empty." Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) summarizes the slow progression of his latest film, , with his long, uneventful drinking sessions on his front porch. Full Article at Associated Content

What’s been a slow awards season build since Toronto and Venice kicked things off two months ago is about to become an accelerated horserace. Full Article at Indie Wire

...... well, I just finished watching a Clint Eastwood production celebrating the life of Mr. Johnny Mercer - who, had he been alive today, would have turned 100 years old this month........ Full Article at Straight White Guy

“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.” —Said by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler to Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara. “I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” —Marlon Brando as Don Corleone. “You don’t understand! I coulda had class. Full Article at ExtraTV.com

Executive producer and lifelong jazz enthusiast Clint Eastwood presents "Johnny Mercer: The Dream's On Me" (8 p.m. , Eastern, TCM), a profile and appreciation of one of the most prolific lyricists of the 20th century. Full Article at SouthCoastToday.com

On paper Jamie Cullum sounds a blast, an enthusiastic jazz imp with a rock-’n’-roll attitude, a mate of Clint Eastwood who has a voraciously inquisitive attitude to music of all kinds. Why, then, is his music so relentlessly middle-England-pleasing? Full Article at The Telegraph

Executive producer and lifelong jazz enthusiast Clint Eastwood presents “Johnny Mercer: The Dream’s On Me” (7 p.m. , TCM), a profile and appreciation of one of the most prolific lyricists of the 20th century. Full Article at Lawrence Journal World

Think back, all the way back, to 1978. That's when Richard Donner's Superman: The Movie hit theaters and kicked off a trend that would continue all the way down to us in the aughts. Full Article at Cinematical

‘Johnny Mercer: The Dream’s on Me,” a new documentary produced by Clint Eastwood (which airs Wednesday, Nov. 4, on Turner Classic Movies, two weeks before the songwriter’s centennial on the 18th), begins with archival footage of two Southerners, the... Full Article at The Daily Swarm

As my friend Nathaniel Rogers over at The Film Experience has pointed out, this Friday can safely be declared the beginning of Oscar season. Full Article at Cinema Blend

By Will Friedwald 'Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me," a new documentary produced by Clint Eastwood (which airs Wednesday, Nov. 4, on Turner Classic Movies, two weeks before the songwriter's centennial on the 18th), begins with archival footage of two... Full Article at Wall Street Journal

CLINT EASTWOOD and FOREST WHITAKER are set to become debutante dads - their teenage daughters are to take part in an annual French ball where they will be formally introduced to adult society. Full Article at New Kerala

Clint Eastwood and Forest Whitaker are set to become debutante dads - their teenage daughters are to take part in an annual French ball where they will be formally introduced to adult society. Full Article at IMDB